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Speaker 1: Welcome to your diary episode.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm a bit of a nomad, so these episodes come

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Speaker 1: to you from wherever I'm living or traveling to at

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Speaker 1: the time. So I'll share with you what's going on

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Speaker 1: in my world, from book tours, animal encounters, delish meals,

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Speaker 1: nature adventures, health discoveries to swimming in hidden Byron Bay beaches.

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Speaker 1: Come with me as I share my adventures with you. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to your diary pod. Coming to you from the

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Speaker 1: Land of Dreams, La. So, I've got some food reviews

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Speaker 1: for you. I've been out to a lovely restaurant.

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Speaker 2: I've got the week that was.

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Speaker 1: I've got some coffee reviews, and yeah, just give you

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Speaker 1: a little taste of my So I think this will

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Speaker 1: I've had one full week, like when I recorded the

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Speaker 1: diary yep, I think I've only been here a few days.

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Speaker 1: So I've had a full week, and like two or

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Speaker 1: three days feels good. I'm starting to get a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a groove. It's still pretty fresh, Like it's

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Speaker 1: still pretty cold, going to bed with a hot water

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Speaker 1: bottle every night. So the morning's are about four degrees

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Speaker 1: and it gets up to about ten and then on

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Speaker 1: a really good day, it gets up to like thirteen

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Speaker 1: or fourteen. And I'm sure melbourneite's listening to this guying

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Speaker 1: yeah yeah, yeah yeah. But Ala is not known for

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Speaker 1: this as far as I'm aware. That said, I've never

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Speaker 1: been here in winter before. I always get here like

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Speaker 1: right abound Easter usually, and by then you'll get like

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Speaker 1: a few chili nights, but you won't get cold days

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Speaker 1: at all, whereas this is like fresh. But anyway, I've

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Speaker 1: got the week that was, and I'll tell you what

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Speaker 1: I've got coming up next week as well. I've actually

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Speaker 1: done a fair bit of Aussie work this week, so

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Speaker 1: I do mentoring for a supplement company in Australia, so

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Speaker 1: I did that. So I've been doing all my Australian

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Speaker 1: work at night time just because of the time difference.

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Speaker 1: And I did a keynote speaking gig for a Melbourne

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Speaker 1: company yesterday, so that's been really fun and also just

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Speaker 1: nice to have little things to kind of like keep

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Speaker 1: my mind really active away from like the La grind.

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Speaker 1: So every day I'm emailing voiceover agents, TV, presenting agents,

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Speaker 1: acting agents, and as amazing as that is, it can

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Speaker 1: feel a little sol destroying because you don't even get

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Speaker 1: rejection letters. You just get nothing. And so I emailed

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Speaker 1: one morning forty one voiceover agents a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 1: and I had my therapy session with my therapist back

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Speaker 1: in Australia that afternoon, and I cried nearly the whole session,

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Speaker 1: and he was like, Okay, what's all this grief for?

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Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm back here. This is the

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Speaker 1: third year that I'm here, and like I haven't made

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Speaker 1: American dollars yet, which might not sound too stressful, but

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Speaker 1: because the Australian conversion isn't strong, Like I think it's

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Speaker 1: about sixty seven cents the dollar, but if you're you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, I won't be able to sustain myself for

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Speaker 1: was just in that real like self dowdy mindset, and

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Speaker 1: I just really sat with my therapist and I've also

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Speaker 1: booked a healing session in with my good friend Laura,

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Speaker 1: who's a healer around owning the space of I am

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Speaker 1: an actor so hopefully I can kind of like I

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Speaker 1: feel like week one was my like adminweek, get the

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Speaker 1: car book, the DMV which is for my driver's license,

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Speaker 1: check sorted, Da da da, all that kind of like

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Speaker 1: like the reality has hit me and the self doubt

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Speaker 1: is very much here. And as I was saying to Matt,

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Speaker 1: is like, I actually think this is a really important

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Speaker 1: part of the process. And it's okay to feel the

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Speaker 1: like you are a total failure and then you pick

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Speaker 1: yourself up the next day and you pull your socks

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Speaker 1: up and you keep going. But I do want to

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Speaker 1: talk about that it is shit to feel in that sit,

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Speaker 1: And I said to Matt at like seven pm one night.

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Speaker 1: I just need to like reset myself. And sure enough,

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Speaker 1: and you know, you don't have your gang that you

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Speaker 1: and so you know it all, you do feel a

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Speaker 2: So that's kind of been one of the like.

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Speaker 1: More psychological and emotional aspects where I've been this week.

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Speaker 1: And my therapist said to me, and it's like kind

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Speaker 1: safe space for me to share. My therapist said, look,

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Speaker 1: you haven't made it in America. You have not made it.

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Speaker 1: And he's like, and for you, someone that works really

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Speaker 1: He's like, that is a confronting feeling to be sitting

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Speaker 1: And I was just seeing like balling miser and that's

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Speaker 1: how it feels. Because in Australia, yes, we have a

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Speaker 1: smaller market, but like usually if I send an email

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Speaker 1: about like representation for voiceovers, for example, that was just right,

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Speaker 1: But I can go thanks so much, You've actually already got

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Speaker 1: voices that sound like you but really appreciate you reaching out.

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Speaker 1: And that's exactly how it went down in Australia, whereas

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Speaker 1: here it's who are you nothing? And so without referrals,

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Speaker 1: it's really hard to even get a meeting. And so

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Speaker 1: you can do all this study, like I start voice

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Speaker 1: be in class and be doing the work quote unquote.

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Speaker 1: That's a big saying in the acting word, like do

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Speaker 1: the work, work on your craft. It's like you should

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Speaker 1: be doing all of that good stuff. But there's still

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Speaker 1: such a disconnect between like being an acting student and

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Speaker 1: and that's what is the really tricky and tough part.

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Speaker 1: so it's been a big kind of like weak for me,

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Speaker 1: But I'm glad that I've been feeling it, and even

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Speaker 1: And that's where therapy, I think, is so important, because

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Speaker 1: feels without any judgment. Right oh, now to the week

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Speaker 1: that was. I didn't expect to go down that ram

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Speaker 1: how I'm feeling and how it's kind of going here.

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Speaker 1: So I caught up with one of my amazing human

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Speaker 1: human mates. Got an incredible dog called Frank, and he's

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Speaker 1: really cool. So last year she adopted Frank and as

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Speaker 1: I've obviously been away for nearly six months, so I

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Speaker 1: he's like a cross shepherd cross. He almost looks like

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Speaker 2: He's that. And anyway, so I caught it with Alex.

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Speaker 2: I said, oh, can I come over a little bit

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Speaker 1: I need to catch up with him, which I did,

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Speaker 1: and then she took me to our favorite place to go,

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Speaker 1: which is called Farmhouse Farmhouses in the Brentwood Country Matts.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking very much so west side now, whereas

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Speaker 1: this place called Farmhouses at the Brentwood Country. Mout's like

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Speaker 1: And I love their local pino and I think it's

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Speaker 1: barb Barber Barbara, Oh Santa Barbara, Lola. Someone's listening to this,

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Speaker 1: yumman like just the right amount of warmth and spice.

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Speaker 1: And we also always get this avocado hormess dip to

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Speaker 1: a bogan, but I think they're called crudetons. Totally greet

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Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, but basically just like vegetable sticks.

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Speaker 1: homicide again for my gluten free life. Very happy, so yummy,

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Speaker 1: and I had two beautiful glasses of that pino.

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Speaker 2: It was just like the perfect welcome back to La.

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Speaker 1: Lunch vibe and it was so so so nice.

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Speaker 2: I've got some food houles for you.

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Speaker 1: So that's the only meal I've eaten out everything else,

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Speaker 1: I've pretty much made it home. Although I did go

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Speaker 1: to air One yesterday. So air One is a really

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Speaker 1: famous health food shop. It's super expensive, Like I'm not

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Speaker 1: So I made a deal with myself. I was like,

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Speaker 1: making us dollars yet. I'm just really trying to track

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Speaker 1: want to make sure I'm not dipping into Australian money

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to be really savvy anyway, So I

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Speaker 1: may to deal with myself. I really wanted to try

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Speaker 1: this Hailey b Bet smoothie, which is like a skin

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Speaker 1: alixa smoothie with collagen and this hydrochloric.

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Speaker 2: It's a hydrolauric acid.

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Speaker 1: Also anyway, it's got some skin acid stuff in it.

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Speaker 1: It's got vitamin E in it. Anyway, it's and it's

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Speaker 1: called strawberry glaze. So I like, my guilty pleasure is

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Speaker 1: I love like strawberry ice cream, strawberry smooth And do

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Speaker 2: That's my pledge to you.

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Speaker 1: gonna keep working on my self submissions, keep giving it

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Speaker 1: my all, keep reaching out to more agents, and hopefully

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Speaker 1: we get a win this year. Any lucky vibes and

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Speaker 1: good lucky energy and any of that jazz send it

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Speaker 1: my way. I'll take all the luck I can get,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, I'll always keep it real and honest with you.

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Speaker 1: And hopefully you're listening to this is a little bit

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Speaker 1: inspiring or piqued interest if you've got a passion and

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Speaker 1: something that you want to chase, all right, big love,

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Speaker 1: hooru boming